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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/19)"
+description: "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/19)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
+legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 55"
+citation: "Louisiana SB 55 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Neil Riser"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-26"
+last_action: "2019-06-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63f7ab32-149d-4a71-acb4-85a608a037d2"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=235841"
+source_hash: "a37e205baa460d696dce3097ee491062ad3a3e85260cee840e248e6368df2761"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
+---
+
+# Louisiana SB 55 (2019) — AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides for an exemption to the Louisiana Weights and Measures Law. (8/1/19)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB55 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1118343)
+2. **SB55 Act 337** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1144297)
+3. **SB55 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1129001)
+4. **SB55 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130283)
+5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #1180, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1128948)
+6. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1451, Riser, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1130219)
+7. **SB55 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1139278)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#229) — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE (#671) — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Neil Riser — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-11** Effective date 8/1/2019.
+- **2019-06-11** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 337. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-04** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-02** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
+- **2019-05-30** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
+- **2019-05-29** Received from the House without amendments.
+- **2019-05-29** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
+- **2019-05-23** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/29/19.
+- **2019-05-21** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
+- **2019-05-20** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
+- **2019-05-16** Reported favorably (13-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
+- **2019-05-07** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-06** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
+- **2019-05-02** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
+- **2019-05-01** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
+- **2019-04-30** Reported with amendments.
+- **2019-04-08** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `filing, referral-committee`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63f7ab32-149d-4a71-acb4-85a608a037d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).
+